I don't think it's this simple, otherwise 1) a lot of people would be using it and 2) copy protection developers would've, therefore, found a way to circumvent it already... I don't think that this idea will get confirmed (so that it can be added to the FAQ)!

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@TippeX: If there's any new (= not yet in the FAQ) useful information in this guide, please, tell me what it is and where to insert it in the FAQ. Thanks!

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nothing really new in that one joe, its been covered a few times in the forum, using the usb connection to an ide cd/dvd driver, allows you to disable it (ie: hotswap, or maybe hotplug.. cant remember the right term) easily, without requiring a reboot, then the protection (typically starforce) will then only run from scsi units, so dt/alc can 'fake' the protection from a good image.. think this 'trick' was closed with the later versions of starforce though, hence me saying it wasnt really 'new'

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@kohan69: Can you list (at least, some of the newest of) the games you have successfully played from a backup with this setup?

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erm 'safely remove hardware' is hotswapping, the concept of being able to 'stop' the usb drives is so that you can plug in another...the issue here is this 'trick' working with different copy protections, you've mentioned dark messiah and toca 2 (securom, and starforce i think), and if we have to put this 'trick' into the faq its going to get very messy very quickly as its dependant certain protections (and indeed, the versions of those protections)..

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Yeah, I'm not gonna add LOOONG lists of games and/or copy protection versions into the FAQ...!

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